Though it's impossible to say whether people feel good because they stretch out or vice versa, Cuddy explained during a talk at New York's 92Y that the people who wake up with their arms in a V "are super happy, like annoyingly happy."

By contrast, she said there's some preliminary evidence that people who wake up in a fetal ball "wake up much more stressed out."

3. Check email

If you sleep near your phone (and most Americans do), it's easy to roll over and start mindlessly scrolling through your inbox.

Don't do it.

As Julie Morgenstern, author of the book "Never Check Email in the Morning," told The Huffington Post, if you start your morning this way, "you'll never recover."

"Those requests and those interruptions and those unexpected surprises and those reminders and problems are endless," she said. "There is very little that cannot wait a minimum of 59 minutes."

Instead, Morgenstern suggests that if you're going to do some work, make it a project that requires considerable focus.

4. Leave your bed unmade

Why make your bed? After all, you're just going to mess it up when you sleep in it later.

If you consume caffeine before then, your body will start adjusting by producing less cortisol in the early morning -- meaning you'll be creating the problem you fear.

6. Get ready in the dark

Keeping the lights off and the shades down might seem like a softer way to transition into the day.

Yet your internal body clock is designed to be sensitive to light and darkness, Natalie Dautovich of the National Sleep Foundation told The Huffington Post. So getting ready in the dark could signal to your body that it's still nighttime and could make you feel even groggier.

If it's still dark outside when you wake up, Dautovich recommends turning on a strong light, like the ones used to treat seasonal affective disorder.

These activities, in and of themselves, are fine -- but it's best if you incorporate them into some kind of routine. As in: Wake up, drink water while listening to music, get dressed, and call a friend on the way to the train.

Scientists say our willpower is limited, and when we expend it early on in the day trying to decide what to do next, we have less left later in the day when we need to concentrate on work.

Instead, let your brain run on automatic in the morning and conserve those mental resources for when you really need them.

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